Bottle-stopper.



No. 847,994. PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907. G. LIBSSBM & J. BOMMER. BOTTLE STOPPBR APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14, 1906.

GOTTFRIED LIESSEM AND JOSEPH BOMMER, or SAN FRANCISCO, 0ALIFORNIA.'

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented March 19,1907.

Application filed November 1 4, 1906. Serial No. 348,406-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GOTTFRIED LIESSEM and JOSEPH BOMMER, subjects of the Empire of Germany, and residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved bot tle-sto per, the same being particularly a plicab e to stoppers for beer-bottles or t e ike in which the stopper does-not have to be replaced on or in the bottle by the consumer. A common form or sto per for such bottles is one in whicha thin cor disk is laid upon the top of the bottle and is secured in posltion by a metallic cap, the edge of which is crimped around-the mouth of the bottle. This form of stopper requires a special bottle-opener for removing the cap from the neck of the bottle, and these bottle-openers are sometimes misplaced or are not supplied with the bottles, and in any case the necessity of so providing them is troublesome and expensive. By the present invention it is no longer necessary to provide such a bottle-opener.

'In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is V I a perspective view of the upper portion of a intermediate stage of removal.

bottle having the improve stopper secured thereon in its normal or closed position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the stopper in an Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the stopper entirely broken for the purpose of removal. Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan view of the stopper intact. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the same broken.

' 6, 7, 8, and 9 are perspective views of erent parts of the stopper detached.

Referring to the drawin 1 indicates a botof U on the to of the neck is placed a thin cork isk 3, such as is common with this class of sto pers, and upon the disk is again placed a dis of waxed paper 4. Over the waxed paper is placed a thln saucer-shaped metal disk 5, having its convex side uppermost and having a central protuberance 6. Over the metallic disk 5 is a cap 7, formed, preferably, of aluminium, having its edge 8 crimped around the neck of the bottle.

The central portion of the ca is cut to form two wings 9 10, united to t e cap only at their bases 11. Both of these Wings are formed with curved corrugations 12, forming an ornamental pattern, and the line of division between the two wings is in a direction in harmony with the general direction of the lines of corrugations or of the pattern. The larger wing 9 has a slight concavity lying over central bulge or protuberance 6 of the metallic cap, the effect of said protuberance g to prevent said larger wing being unduly depressed, which would-renderit difficult to raise it withthe finger-nail. Said protuberance forms a stop for the larger wing when placing the cap upon the bottle, raising the edge of the larger wing slightly above that of the smaller wing, so that the fingernail can be inserted beneath said edge and the wing can be easily raised. 'It will be observed, moreover, that said wings when in position form in appearance a continuous cap. For this reason and on account of the ornamental pattern formed on the wings the device is neat and attractive 1.11 appearance and is readily introduced on the market.

In order to remove the stopper, the operator first lifts one of the wings 9 and 10 into the position shown in Fig. 2. This may be accom lished either with the finger-nail or with alrnife-blade. When the wing has been raised by pulling it outward, the operator tears the same from the cap and in so doing severe the edge of the ca as shown in F i 3. Should the removal of t e first wing 9 fall to sever the cap, the second wing 10 may be used. Thus the cap is readily removed from the bottle and the bottle thereby opened.

We claim A bottle-stopper comprisin a disk, a thin metallic disk over the'first dis and having a central protuberance or boss, a cap around thesame adapted to be crimpedto the neck of the bottle, said cap being formed of thin' metal which will readily tear, and said metal being made with corrugations forming an ornamental ilattern and being divided into In testimony whereof we have hereunto set two wings,' t e lineof division between the our hands in the presence of two subscribing I0 wings extending in the same direction as the witnesses. H

lines of corrugations to conform to the en- GOTTFRIED LIESSEM.

eral pattern, each wing being connecte to JOS. BONEMER.

the base of the cap, and the two wings to- Witnesses:

gether completely covering the underlying FRANoIs M. WRIGHT, disk, substantially as described. 7 D. B. RICHARDS. 

